Quotes from Robinson Marilynne

But if you're just a stranger to everybody on earth, then that's what you are and there's no end to it. You don't know the words to say.

And anybody at all can see it, but you can't. It just floats there in front of you. It might as well be your soul, for all you can do to protect it. What isn't strange, when you think about it.

He'd wanted to get her baptized before she could take off and lose herself in some rough life and then be lost in whatever came after it.

The idea was precious to her. Doll...but with death behind her, and all the peace that would come with that.

You can't see the world the way you ought to if you let yourself do that. Any judgement of the kind is a great presumption. And presumption is a very grave sin. I believe this is sound theology, in its way.

She guessed she really was married to him, the way she hated the thought of him grieving for her.